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Title: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: tarrant_01 on March 08, 2012, 09:06:54 PM Article: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/holey-chip-ibm-drills-holes-into-optical-chip-for-terabit-per-second-speed.ars (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/holey-chip-ibm-drills-holes-into-optical-chip-for-terabit-per-second-speed.ars)
I think I'll start drilling holes in my CPU and see if it speeds up ;D. I'm curious of what a chip like this might do for mining though. I'm guessing it would meet the output rates of current GPU's maybe but at much less wattage use(states 7.5 watts in the article). Go easy on me though, talking outta my ass here. Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: SgtSpike on March 08, 2012, 09:29:59 PM Why are they rating this chip in "bits" instead of "hertz"? Is it a chip solely for transmission/relay of data instead of calculations?
Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: Mousepotato on March 08, 2012, 10:36:22 PM Oh sweet, maybe now we'll have a machine that can play Crysis.
Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: Red Emerald on March 08, 2012, 11:24:19 PM This is cool, but it isn't a CPU. It's for high speed data transfer
Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: notme on March 08, 2012, 11:35:26 PM This is cool, but it isn't a CPU. It's for high speed data transfer It is a CPU... that's the high speed interconnect... think PCI-E on crack. Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: Red Emerald on March 08, 2012, 11:47:34 PM This is cool, but it isn't a CPU. It's for high speed data transfer It is a CPU... that's the high speed interconnect... think PCI-E on crack. The article says... Quote the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits of information per second." not Quote the first cpu to transfer one trillion bits of information per second." Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: notme on March 09, 2012, 12:00:54 AM This is cool, but it isn't a CPU. It's for high speed data transfer It is a high speed interconnect to connect CPUs to each other and other devices. F T F Me Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: payb.tc on March 09, 2012, 12:06:55 AM Article: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/holey-chip-ibm-drills-holes-into-optical-chip-for-terabit-per-second-speed.ars (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/holey-chip-ibm-drills-holes-into-optical-chip-for-terabit-per-second-speed.ars) I think I'll start drilling holes in my CPU and see if it speeds up ;D. http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2921/speedholes.jpg Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: teflone on March 09, 2012, 02:36:18 AM Article: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/holey-chip-ibm-drills-holes-into-optical-chip-for-terabit-per-second-speed.ars (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/holey-chip-ibm-drills-holes-into-optical-chip-for-terabit-per-second-speed.ars) I think I'll start drilling holes in my CPU and see if it speeds up ;D. http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2921/speedholes.jpg Hahahahahha excellent pic.. :) Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: tarrant_01 on March 09, 2012, 02:45:58 AM Article: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/holey-chip-ibm-drills-holes-into-optical-chip-for-terabit-per-second-speed.ars (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/holey-chip-ibm-drills-holes-into-optical-chip-for-terabit-per-second-speed.ars) I think I'll start drilling holes in my CPU and see if it speeds up ;D. [pic] That looks about the size I was thinking of. The more light that gets through the better. Thanks! Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: payb.tc on March 09, 2012, 02:55:54 AM Quote ...for a total of 960 gigabits, just below a terabit. IBM is unveiling the prototype chip today at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles, calling it "the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits of information per second." wrong! that's like saying usain bolt was the first to run 100m in 9 seconds. Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: Red Emerald on March 09, 2012, 03:46:17 AM Quote ...for a total of 960 gigabits, just below a terabit. IBM is unveiling the prototype chip today at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles, calling it "the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits of information per second." wrong! that's like saying usain bolt was the first to run 100m in 9 seconds. Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: payb.tc on March 09, 2012, 03:56:29 AM Quote ...for a total of 960 gigabits, just below a terabit. IBM is unveiling the prototype chip today at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles, calling it "the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits of information per second." wrong! that's like saying usain bolt was the first to run 100m in 9 seconds. yeah duh, normally i don't get caught out by that but looks like i was wrong this time... 960 'gigabits' is 1030792151040 bits. Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: BTC guy on March 12, 2012, 06:32:26 AM 100 core processors on the way.....
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Tilera-100-core-CPU-200-cores-Serve-processors-Multi-core-CPUs,14543.html Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: JoelKatz on March 13, 2012, 03:19:16 AM Doesn't every optical semiconductor have holes for the light to pass through?
Title: Re: 1 terabit processor coming soon Post by: ineededausername on March 13, 2012, 04:15:40 AM they always say these nice things but they never release them :(
They said 1 THz was coming in 2000... |
